"The OB-6's place as one of the finest polys on the market is (I assume!!) by this stage likely without question. But the big question is: is the OB-6 also one of the finest monosynths DSI has ever produced?!

In mono mode it is brutal. For around the first minute of this video I'm layering the voices, starting with only one, through to all 6. This gives a good sense of the size of the sound. Sometimes a sound can be 'too big' - which is where the voice-layering/stripping possibilities are very useful.

At around 1:13 I'm turning the detune knob - hence the wider sound. Again, great sound.

Towards the end of the improv, the tone reminded me of Chicane's music. I think the track is called 'Fibreglasses', but I could be wrong, as I haven't listened to it since the album release. I'm probably not even playing it in the correct key!

PS excuse any errors - this was a literal 'sit down and hit record' improv as a Friday-night break from a transcription project I'm working on.

"This Kurzweil K250 was part of Jim Johnson's (Composer for the WWE) personal studio. It has been tested and is fully functional This Kurzweil K250 is in great condition. Only cosmetic wear is two caps missing on the "Tune" and "Instrument A Group" sliders. The Tune slider shaft is bent slightly but still works well. Includes the power supply which also works as a sustainer pedal for the keyboard itself."

"20 minute PE set to check out the noise potential. Probably a bit long and drawn out in terms of demo material, but if you're into this stuff you're probably used to full C60 outings etc. Transition from navicon torture technologies type drone to an escallation into noise at 7.10. If you hate this sort of stuff i probably already know this and the sun will still rise in the morning :)

Where to get and what's in there below:

Drone is constantly triggered via midi as i don't have three hands. The rest is just hands on manipulation and experimentation to see how it behaves in the context of drone and power electronics performance. Filter as a very hot resonance peak when the res is cranked which can be used to cut into the delay loop, even when the loop feedback is maxed out and trying to inject additional audio into it becomes tricky.

Fitted with a monophonic midi interface. The board is polyphonic but the amount of routing and circuitry required to implement this via midi isn't doable in the space available. The compromise is still cool though, giving a mix of automation that can be played over, plus being a bent machine it can pull off all sorts of strange stuff when you spend a bit of time getting to know it. The standard format on the spectrum of nice to nasty - melodic to harsh noise all loaded up in this one.

It has a resonant filter, 'ruiner' ringmod/distortion and a digital delay configured as a circuit bent delay pedal might be - that is untethered feedback and filtering for texture and noise generation and manipulation. Also added is a global pitch control with fine and coarse dials."

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"Our executive director Michelle Moog-Koussa was recently featured on the podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz, which explores the stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds. Both she and theremin virtuoso Rob Schwimmer appear alongside the podcast's host, Dallas Taylor, discussing the theremin's history, functionality, and its link to Bob Moog and his work.

Michelle was also interviewed by Heather Anders of 98.1 The River in the Foundation's hometown of Asheville, NC. Heather delved into all of the Foundation's work, with an exploration of the plans for the Moogseum.

"Kilpatrick Audio's Redox (https://www.perfectcircuit.com/kilpat...) is a stereo reverb with tons of algorithms, modulations and tweakable settings to get many different sounds. The Redox also has presets and an LCD screen so you can easily see and adjust the settings. The sounds range from vintage to modern and the routing is adjustable with the modulation effects either before or after the reverb. In this video the sound source is the Phenol, Kilpatrick's analog banana patchable synthesizer."

"How to polish keys! Full restoration guide for the Pratt Read keybed of the Oberheim OB-X synthesizer.
- Plus Pratt Read's technical history.
Please note I am not a historian, for corrections please see the description and comments.

Skip ahead to 9:00 minutes to go straight to the teardown and service guide.

Here's the links to the websites I featured:
The Arc Sound bushings
http://pw2.netcom.com/~arcsound/

"This Modular G1 is in good condition and working well. All controls have great feel and respond accurately. All lights and screen fully functional. All ports and jacks in great shape and connect without issue. Sound is strong and clear from all inputs and outputs.

Unit is in good physical condition with a little residue on a few of the keys, shown in photo 12. This residue is mild and feels slightly rough, is not sticky or tacky at all. Otherwise in great condition."

"**SKIPPABLE TIMING INDEX BELOW** As you expect from anything AJH this sounds great. It takes a single input and gives us a huge range of tonal sculpting that can be spread across left and right bands creating a stereo image, you can take the ALL summed output or the mix output that allows crossfading between dry/wet and fading and modulating between the left and right bands. The Dry/Wet blend allows you to take a single input and re-balance the dry level to match the wet or even plug in a different sound to fade between processed wet sounds and something else entirely as the dry signal. The inbuilt feedback path is tapped from the mix output meaning any changes to dry/wet blend and the left/right blend control affects the feedback path too.

http://www.ajhsynth.com

TIMING INDEX / SECTIONS

00:12 Patch Previews

00:57 Features, what is it, verbal run down … stereo imaging, mixed out, feedback paths, second input to the dry/wet etc.

04:01 Sound demo - wave shaping, feedback, input drive and more

09:42 Ambient sound demo, basic shaping over full mixes

10:43 Adding animation, tonal sculpting and modulation over wavetable drones. Here we use different crossfader audio to merge wet affected sounds with different dry sources.

14:02 Shaping noise sources and percussion sounds and synthesis.

16:02 No input FEEDBACK … THIS IS ACE! I got lost in this and performed some music to release I was that excited.

20:52 Using the filter bank to process and influence FX feedback paths. This patch uses the Filter Bank to colour and shape the delay trails in a patch.

"Ahhhh! Yamaha sent me an MODX to borrow and I'm pretty blown away at the power of this synth. Here's a quick morning jam with the MODX. I'm triggering midi notes using the Yamaha TNR-e (Tenori-On iOS app) via the Bluetooth to MIDI adapter MD-BT01 which is connected to the MODX."